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SULUVkH’S THREE-QUARTER ROAD WtGOH. rT " A \ .ft . v M ITTo. ^05. and UBug^r, well l.uilt In every Inrt:-Ul»r, to carry one or tw pr« svngen, This 1* a lfefct price Very Lo». oar Ijirg^ Bales on It allow ha to put the Catalogue and Price Ust showing a full lino of Carriasres, B»i Zfrite, Carts and tor IUustrated Cutters. HUGHSON SULLIVAN, ROCHESTER, J<T. TT. Wholeeato Xanufarttirv-rs, “fit ^ m ummei 'WS 550 esorts. mm BZ 8TJBZ ZOUS TICKET KEAiiS VIA L v MpACIHG^C short line 0 'yp" J*’’*'*' . and Denver. ■ Devoted t# the Interest #f Taliafer o y, the People and Genera) Sews. CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGL FRIDAY, AUG U8T 16.1889. A TELLING LETTER. COL. WATSON AND Dr. BOGGS The Chancellor’s Legislative Speech and What Mr. Watson Thinks of it—what is The Du ty ot the State of Georgia. Tirmreov 11 ,’,. , 1 a Tide 1 R ’ isaq T?Txr™,r,„ JiDirou journal. t .. Alter a r, . so;ih' ]w , hminary trumpet.ug among the in different parts oi the state, the dls tmguished Chancellor of our universi ty has made a final grand appeal-o th'' legislatuie in behalf of wlmt is calico •iiigner Eiiucation. His pleasant to see now sKiiiuiiy our Chancellor begins Ins address.' Like the lawyer who assures .his jmy that never betore was such a jury paneiieu, so I r. Boggs most suavely flatters Ins auditory; assures them that this legislature is tire very best tho state has had for years and that the footsteps of every member of that au siist fiodj are ollowed >y the applaud, mg attention of a grateful and admit • iiig constituency. The Atlanta ... , Constiution ,, ,. ,. goes into . a state of ecstacy over this gteat speech; asserts positively that its ar interviews gument is with unanswerable; legislators gives us various who weie more or less capsized by this rhetorical gale, arid leaves the lmjires sion geneiaiiy mat jor. Boggs most effectually whooped the boys tip. When the Constitution has an ob f act e ! wise,y .!! ,I'! W it f i ne o c j ui 0 10 ' 18 , C1 attach 'f 111 , too its .etteis Horn *2- distinguished I , lS , Ir ? t , erv . lews men ’„ and its telegrams from prominent citi zens. 1 here is such a tiling as man ufactunng “public sentiments” and the Constitution is something of an expert m doing it. What are the “unanswerable argu menta” which Dt Boggs used? If he made any of that character the re porter has carefully eliminated them liom his teport. I he issues are these: up lj|hall mst, the or shall common they schools give way be to built tins movement to spend a great deal morn money on the btate university? Shall all the cluldien in tlm state, rich and glisli P° a *’ education, ^f Ve *. ie J or shall Mie a J tax HIV moil ey of the people be taken to build up colleges where only the favored few can learn Latin and mek and a vas deal of impractical nonsense? m .mu..- ‘ * ' ■•Ik y 1 -- i, Does Dr. . These: a- . questions. Boggs meat them’? s Listen to him. - I “You asked mey’’ said Iso, “it” we cannot take the common schools ias a foundation of education arid Guild upon that? I answer you eana.mly; no we cannot. In building a house, like tliis capitol, for instance, you have to build a foundation first > and upon it raise superstructure al ter * wards. But it so happens that educa¬ tion is not a house. That is not’ the analogy. Look at that sun. I hat is the correct analogy, as it risos, giv¬ ing life and light to everything on earth.” Tins happy comparison, with the tre¬ mendous argument compress -d in it, struck the audience like a solid «h d , and they applauded it with a will. Precisely. A nice piece of rhetoric of that sort will always please the hoys, i know this because 1 sometimes drop into that kind of thing rnyself, just as to Silas Wegg sometimes “drapped ip poetry, hut when I do, I don’t any more consider it “busiuess” than Silas did. Now to the analogies: . In butlo mg a house,” says the doctor, _ “you j have to build a foundation first, etc. | But it so happens that .education is j not a house!” ! Observe the artistic skill of the stal e inent. A mere clumsy jacking at, handling words would have said “J. < ueatior is not a house;” and toe ; moment he had done so some 1 eve rent rogue would have responded “Well, who said it was?” But IJr. . Boggs is too skilfull of fence for ariy such commonplace, so be says, it so happens that education is not a bouse,” and thus he at once makes the impression that something quite «f new has been added to treasures n. literature. Having ,, in - this knightly m man M „„*r ne 1 ] unhorsed the one analogy, the Listen a a.to proceeds to equip the other. ; to him: “Look at that sun, ^e.-' , aiidfenw Whereunon says our reporter, the wen’ li) to nieces cenary troops-they can be found fighting & on both sides. This thought jzt &s saw that the audience laughed over, j the anecdote, their conduct became so; mysterious that I could only explain it upon the idea that they felt bound to repay the speaker for bis very com plimentary opening rcnoaika. But will the doctor’s analogy do? Does it not likewise “happen” education is not the sun? What U ““*• I Pt ““uiife air suu waruu 1 (ou cart li) will the college so warm to intellectual life all the citizous of t i ^tate that found it. How? . > does he put it this way: As the ..!) warms into life the plants, etc., ! on earth, so will the graduates of tho u, lkge diffuse culture upon those citi tens who do not go ro college. Again, how? suppose we have 1,000 children to bo schooled; 100 of them can go The to col ; 000 of them cannot. 000 at home and have no efficient pmon school training. The 100 go Athens and learn everything that . Boggs can teach them, including , knowledge of history and the anco-German war. Now, how will burning of the 100 reach the 1 ) 00 ? caching them? If so, how and n and at whose expense? In mas j, iws (or them? But they already more laws than they can read, besides, the best laws come from 'common people and not the educa i ,.,i classes. In writing good books for 4- ietn- What good will the books do fossibly Hie people are not taught to read? Collegians It may be done by these wise creating “an atmosphere” 1 r Jr ruing, Dr. Boggs calls it; and as ten these unfortunated illiterates will jgo.t Waslflugton their collegiate training as ho says got lus, bv living “near enough to absorb much of the culture that floated in the air of that society, ” f , 1( .. This is a pretty theory—this idea of taking one’s education at the nostril, m he does the scent of a flower. But v;l! it work? When ami where will |hi«se 000 plowboys and their sisters get into the society of thoie college i,.,y S B0 as to breathe this curium [‘atmosphere” vill educate people? which I)r. Bogg thinks [Aye Viewing the question practically, I ,,| no more faith in this “atmos ere >. theory for general use than H ancho Pmiziv (Aftertrial) l had in the f | m0Uf) ]hUun „f Don Quixote. iweding with his address Dr. - ^ggs„aid: “So far as the towns are 11 C en,ed, they produce very few first tHS The reporter innocently ds, “This startling statement was dj,!.” jlculated Well, t o draw I should attention, and it j^paase think so; not the thought was at all new, ^ii.t because Dr. Boggs has settled an (](! i,,t which incapable most poopk had ,>[>oh'm 1 t« be of settlifttient. Nib boyish debating societv ever i vilnd debate, , loner or later, the old, old Question (jountry produced as to whether the},r the city But or utter men. ' sundy thought that it £ . as was v other' ' for d** „u utterly troM j's 'vi pv 'wlflch e t'o'.maltH good his asser tloiv wad so startling to our of report •'< I imagine that if either mv f/emls, Senator l)osli Massengale inclined ot :y (lil! , or j 06 Strouther, felt t,, 4ke issue with the doctor and ue | Jrt |,e tlm question with him, they might o 3 tartle” him quite as much ns lie gtarte( j the reporter, They wiiuld easily prove that great numbers of tho very greatest inon of all times and all countries have come from tho towns. They will show Dim Alexander the Great coming from Pella; Hannibal from Carthag*; Omar from Borne; Napoleon from Ajaccio. They will show him Aristotle coming from Stageira: .Sir Isaac Newton from Woolsthorpe; Bacon from London and Locke from NVrington. Shakspcare They will also show him coming from Stratford-on-Avon; Mil¬ ton, Byron. Pope from London;Goethe t rom Prankfort-on-the-Main; Scott f roul Edinburgh; Donte from Plorenco aft( j Bwift from Dublin. Virgil comes (nnn Tasso from Sorrento, (jieero was born in tho country; De moathens in the town. Luther came j» rom ttle town) alJ( i so did his forernu- from }l(;r ’ \yj c kliffi;. Socrates came Uie town ar)( | H()j I think did Plato. Thus the list might be extended indefinitely and our senators would ,. ()Ut Hoggs “horse, foot and dra A 001)H< »> Gol. Strother wouldn’t ask |||y „ aS j er j„R u, a n to talk Dr. Boggs , nt0 a stat( , 0 f in-ipir-HH collapse upon a theme so capable of being discussed forever. The learned Chancellor comments J^^hed ( the fact that so many distin k men of the Hie cities have come 10 m country. The fact that you ry birth find so in many the towns able men simply of the shows conn -1 | that towns aro considered the best stage for ambition. They luvo more woalttl aa(1 more opportunities for the . . lL hardly do to say Uiat ' .' » themselves produce sotno K ^ rc,lt .r,' rnen ' It will hardly do to say that .. , town , concede that Dr. 15 he announces that tl.o tow ns‘produce s? first. This is nec^arily so an 1 • always been so. Now, accorling Ur. Boggs, the great men do not come from those pi ices which enjoy the g , t. education. How about this, ., toi. portion of . , Ins • in tb« historical ar gumeot Dr. Boggs was equally unfor tunate The reporter saysthat “rnmn TiA^nu . «;; Due old gentle- Torms; $ 1 . 80 , In Advanoa. man who bad bean nodding slightly,” etc. Cun it be possible that these “drowsy j persons” were some of those who had been so profusely tufflal by thr Chancel lor at tho opening of his speech? Can it be that, tho “old gentleman who had teen nodding slightly” is one of those whoso eminent footsteps if followed by the admiring gaz; of a grateful con stituency? Let us turn from this picture of painful ingratitude and follow the doc* tor in his “unanswerable argument.” “All history,” lie says, “testifies that intelligence rules tho world.” Then follows hia illustrations, Would that wo could believe jtl Would that the earnest student could shut his eyes to the fact that martial prowers, brute force and agressiyo will power have always dominated the mere scholarship of the world, The rude mountaineers that follow ed Cyrus despised the learning and civilization of Babylon and swept it from earth. What better did they build in its place? The elegant culture of Athens and Thebes disappeared before the iron tread of the illiterates Macedonian, whether led by Alexander, Phillip or Parmenio. All the learning of Greece formed no shield to tho ruthless Bpear of Home. The ignorant Fianks, worshiping pagan gods and of letters, blotted out the civilization of Oliristain Gaul— destroyed its schools, robbed its churches and seized its lands, which they hold to this day. The Angles and the Saxons, a band of pirates and freebooters, utterly srv age and Godless swoopep down upon ( hristiai: Britain, slew tho priest at the altar and tlm scholar at Ills studies and utterly subdued the land as his forever, Tho Tartars, the Moslems, tho Ilans, the Goths, tho Vandals! Did they not ob 1 iterate forever many a people more cultured an 1 enlightened than they? li not all Europe and Asia strewn with the relics of mug nlftcent works of, art, which barba¬ rians despoiled but could not repJaoe— with palaces, temples, bridges, harbors canals which they could destroy but could not roproduo? Have they who drove out tho Moors ever reared an AllmnJbra? Have they who sacked Athens over built a Parthenon? Did they who came after in Fgypt duplicate the temple of Karnak,’ or the Obelisks, or the Pyreo)’.'*, or the Sphinx? ‘bia ruled * aer, a InTii vflTi tun wind and salute. ........ Italy. Tlm Goths Where ami the the Lombardy triumph! of intel¬ |rejl are for¬ lect, with which they would make us get those whom conquered they conquered? Constantinople The Turk of ami held It. But the glorious tulture the Greeks, whom he subdued, was be¬ yond his rivalry and his comprehension. Bui war’s Does Dr. Boggs remember lino picture of Bootlieas, the Scholar, lit tlie dungeon wull of Tlieodorlc, for to romnmber tlm Goth? that It may he ui In national life, as In Individual life, thorn are elements of success much more y ower full than education—element* which edu cation can help, but cannot supply and cannot resist. Hence it is that rude na¬ tions and rude men are so often the vietfirs. complacency that Dr. It is with grolU of France Boggs alludes to the Instance and Germany, lie savs that after the ile featof France, the French government In - quired of the French Institute why it was In her hour or trial, France found so few that,men of superior Intel led to serve her. The reply was. "Because Franco (under Napoleon I.J had destroyed her system of liulveisitv education” Dr. Boggs goes on to say, "And this reply, according politi¬ to a distinguished British scientist and cian, noman has ever disputed.” Possi¬ bly not. The 1 eason may be that no man has ever thought it worth disputing. Most men, on reflection, arc ant to con¬ clude that tlm profound imbecility of the It dispute, llassumes as true wlmt all men know to he untrue, viz 1 iial. university education can supply Intellect. II does nothing of the sort—never did and never wllL_ iie ■ history _ will seek deeper - ’i student of for tin: causes of France’s defeat. Among them he will not forget the reaction and depletion consequent, upon the immense drafts upon Frame; by the First. Napoleon: he will not forget the corruption, the wild xttravaRanctvau ‘1 favoritism which u.a<hi the .Second Empire so notorious; lie will " a l 1 ^’'f,'„! ) , a zi , nes of supplba reach and the amuni- starv ttn-y did not oUljl . r an ^ his empty musket; anil by m)m „ wi n he forget the superior weapons and discipline of Germany. told 1 twill lie news to most people to be that France Is not the equal of tubdligenci; in learning and in native Had Chan/.y commanded where the Crown ,. rin „ (; .pa, tlie victor doubtless would J.v history. The facts collegiate donut sustain training him. w , had „„ j^.^u^totheheroofthewarofisi?- D<a)s ho not re nem Andrew Jackson. education at all? 1)i<r j a ,-,kson had n<» | j„ sp itc of his illimracy he outrankiM ati ( .<i !„• dashed intw the politi al arena and ,i,,itei forces of Glay, We p, t ,, r an d Ualhoun. ^ alhM , ( , < u> the Mexican war; will he ar ,WWBMWh co,wr * en \ J y‘. B. Forest.’’ Vet Forest was scarcely NO. 33 . able to wirto hi* name. Dr. Boggs would have us believe that Lee, Jackson and the Johnstons owed to their collegiate training at home the pre¬ eminence which they achieved fever other cadets at Wear (Vint Well, Grant, Slier mad and Sheridan 1 ecane pre-eminent on the other side. Thy imd also none to West Point; to wlmt did they owe their pre-eminence? And what has lie to say for the score of other cadets from the Soutli who had the same home training r.s Leu, the Johntons and Jackson, and yet who never amounted to a row of pins? Is Or. Hoggs becoming so carried away that he is forgetting the natural talent, which forces its way outword, upward and onword legardless of education? lias ho readied the point, were he coil* aiders education as synonymous with Intellect, If learning and wisdom? so lot us remind him of tlm old Saxon Proverb which says “No fool is a complete foil till he learn* Latin.” Let me remind him, it is not to the scholars that proudest achievements belong. The ehiefest of our treasures as a people have been won for us by the clear, native intelligence of the people, by experience. schooled in actual lire, educated I haven't the space P> enlarge on these would, thoughts, but they explain wlmt otherwise from Dr. Boggs standpoint, be In¬ explicable. learned They explain why the un slink spear o surpasses raw Ben Johnson," why SkobelelT was the most brilliant of Hussion soldiers; why Surwar~ row was almost Invincible; why Bums, the the plowman banker; Is a greater Pronttss nod than Hegors than Everett; why was a greater orator why rail-splitter Lin¬ coln was a loftier figure than the college bread Seward; why the uncultured Clay could dominate Webster and silenco Clioite; and why Andrew Jackson could rout the great trio. In other words, eute,licet is Ood-givont Education can only polish tfie diamond. Don't mistake the polish for the diamond. Don’t tutus lose our heads over this sud¬ den clamor for “higher education.” The present legislature has tho full con¬ fidence of the people. We believe it to btf ft conservative, reliable ami highly intelli¬ gent doily. Our people rely upon them noet to go Into extremes. Not to overestimate collegiate training any,more than education they will under¬ estimate It; not to give over tir 'centralism, which is the bane of go many other (live good things. thorough system of us a common: schools, whore If all thu have hoys and girls o.iut get a start. they any special keep merit in them they can manage to going after they get a good start. Uive us good the common anil schqpl llrtl Thorn we can train child yet preserve our parent il control. One of the sadest hours with a parent I* that 111 which bn sends Ills child to colleger —the parental discipline Is gone ami so is the hoy—sometimes. It Is quite natural that Dr. Boggs ar' the graduates from tho .State iimw' and the taustecs thereof should the'.r ad llonnl appropriation. We can all understand lire sdatft t. Mood Poison. { * Is every liable to follow eontacet of tfrir I,amis or face with wlmt Is known as pol¬ son icy, especially I 11 hot weaker or if tho body is perspiring freely. Tile trouble 111a) subside for a time, only to appear In aggravated form when opportunity offers. The great purifying power of Hood's Sarsaparilla thoroughly eradicate every 1 race of poison from the blood, as the cure It lias accomplished conclusively show. It also cures scrofula, salt rheuriv and all other affections arising ' > t « pure or polwnied blood. The Mississippi law which Blogger Sulivan violated fixes as the minimum' penalty for his offense a fine of $o 00 . The worst lie can get is a fine of $l,B0O‘ or one year in j til, or both. — Physicians CJonfess. All Inmost, conscientious physicians who give if. If. It. (Hr tanlc Blood Balm) a trial, frankly admit its superiority over all other blood medicines. Dr. J. W. Rhodes, Crawfordville, Go. - writes, “I confess B. 4 !. B. is the best and quickest medicine for rheumatism I have ever tried.” Dr. VV J. Adair, Ilockmart, Ga., writes: "1 regard li. B. B. as one of the best blood medicines,'' Dr A. H. Roscoe, Nasi ville, Tenn., writes. “Al! reports of B. B. B. arc favorable, and Its speedy action i»' truly wonderful.” Dr. S. J. Farmer, Crawfordville, Ga., writes: “I cheerfully recommend B. B. U. as a fine tonic alterative. Its use cured excrescence of the neck after other reme¬ dies effected no perceptible good.” Dr. C. If. Montgomery, Jacksonville, Fla., writes: “My mother Insisted on my getting li. It li. for her rheumatism, as her ease stubbornly resisted Hie usual remedies. She experienced Immediate relief and her improvement hasbeen truly wonileiful.” A prominent physician who wlslies his name not given, says- “A patient of mine wlioes case of tertiary syphilis was surely kill ing him, ai d which no treat¬ ment seemed to check, was entirely cured! with about twelve bottles of B. B. B. Htv WHS fairly made up of skin and bones anil terrible ulcers.’* In the election in Floyd county Ct . . . . , were defeated a 600 majority. They w,l» ) ■ the election on the ground of i» VlJ t«‘S having been cast, bat 1 siUns to to tie bi a hoiielesa case, | w b^s w* b,tters mortal radlhw.oawrapper.